High-Resolution Radar Imaging of Space Targets Based on HRRP Series

When wide or ultrawideband, low pulse repetition frequency (PRF) radar is applied to the imaging of space targets; it is highly possible that motion through range cell and azimuth under-sampling occurs, which will result in image smearing. To figure out this problem, this paper proposes a novel, three-step imaging method using the high-resolution range profile (HRRP) series. In the first step, high-quality HRRP series are obtained based on the theory of sparse signal representation. Then, based on the Kalman predictor and the minimum Euclidean distance criterion, motion and amplitude feature-based scatterer trajectory association is carried out to form the scatterer trajectory matrix, from which the scatterer locations are conveniently solved in the last step. Compared to the traditional imaging techniques based on Doppler analysis, the proposed method is able to mitigate the influence of azimuth under-sampling, and may provide a new solution to high-resolution imaging of targets moving nonuniformly in low PRF scenarios. Finally, simulations have proved the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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